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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • But… why?

    The whole point is that the profiles are real people to network with professionally. The second people know that a profile might be a corporate bot, I feel like the site is done.

    Besides, just have a python script that generates generic guy names and picks 10 random IT/ business skills, plus a 30% chance to add “synergy”, “go getter”, or “team-oriented”, and you’ll have recreated the same effect as your LLM, and saved yourself 40 million.



  • They were contacted by an unknown person who requested they play their video game demo (downloadable from Steam). In exchange for RastaLand playing their video game demo on stream, they would financially compensate them.

    Unfortunately, it’s extraordinarily easy to hide malware in any application that is expected to have online components, because you can add the malicious, “staged” malware after install. Also, depending on what the code is doing, it may not even appear malicious to malware scanners.

    Crypto-stealers often don’t even need to elevate privileges or access system components or create backdoors in order to operate, they’re just sending info out, so from a behavioral perspective they often don’t really “act” maliciously.

    Sadly, this is less about Valve not preventing something, and more about someone falling for targeted phishing.

    Edit: Looking through the tweets, the only references to it being malicious all appeared within the past day, and the claims of the dev being compromised within the last week, so I’d guess the game was updated with malicious components in the last couple days.








  • but one asshole dying was the tipping point to allow the full weight of fascism to bear down?

    This was always the plan, and this is not the first instance. The Doge guy who got jumped in DC was their soft-launch at this, using one asshole getting mugged to literally occupy an entire city.

    This entire presidency has been The Wolf and The Lamb incarnate.

    A Wolf was drinking at a spring on a hillside. On looking up he saw a Lamb just beginning to drink lower down. “There’s my supper,” thought he, “if only I can find some excuse to seize it.” He called out to the Lamb, “How dare you muddle my drinking water?”

    “No,” said the Lamb; “if the water is muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.”

    “Well, then,” said the Wolf, “why did you call me bad names this time last year?”

    “That cannot be,” said the Lamb; “I am only six months old.”

    “I don’t care,” snarled the Wolf; “if it was not you, it was your father;” and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and ate her all up.

    • Aesop



  • I think their point is that in an economy that isn’t profit-driven, artists (just like everyone else) would not rely on their art/labor for survival.

    Artists generally prefer this model as well, since they don’t have to tailor their art to anyone else’s tastes. We already see models moving towards this, like Patreon, where you pay the artist to produce whatever art they want, rather than buying a completed work. The next step is this being UBI (which is essentially a public patronage system), not private patrons.